Proximate humid and dry regions in Jupiter's atmosphere indicate complex local meteorology

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6783, 2000, Pages 158-160

  Roos Serote, M ^a   Vasavada, A R ^b   Kamp, L ^c   Drossart, P ^d   Irwin, P ^e   Nixon, C ^e   Carlson, R W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUPITER; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GALILEO PROJECT; LONG DURATION; UNMANNED;

ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HUMIDITY; JUPITER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; WATER;

EID: 0034636422     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35012023     Document Type: Article

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